Seiko Power Design Project
The Seiko Power Design Project made an interesting exhibition at the recent Tokyo Design Week. Seiko Power Design Project is a workshop that approaches a new style of watches with product designer, Mr. Naoto Fukasawa, as the project director. The proposals for 2007 were on display in the show called “Seiko Standard 2″. Some words...
We can’t afford to buy CHEAP things
Here follows a text from designer and cultural nomad Satyendra Pakhale about his exhibition called “We can’t afford to buy CHEAP things”. Having been invited by Ms. Nicolette Naumann to curate and design the Personal Shopper exhibition at Tendence Lifestyle 2007, I feel it’s indeed high time for us to review our way of living...
She said it!
This legendary speech by twelwe years old Severn Suzuki at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro in 1992 has been floating around in the bloggosphere for a while. Severn started the Environmental Children’s Organization when she was nine and it is somewhat frightening to see that not much has changed. Actually it has just...
Peter Andersson at 20ltd
Swedish designer Peter Andersson has recently launched a new piece of furniture at the luxury internet shopping site 20ltd (which I have reported about earlier here and here). The arm chair has an humorous twist as it from the front looks really solid and classic but from the back reveals a wooden structure in waxed...
David Report at Facebook
I have created an application for David Report at Facebook. So, if you are into this social network, be sure to install the David Report Facebook application and be regularly updated about what’s going on in the world concerning trends in the intersection of design, culture and business life. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : facebook...
Luxury redefined
Spring 2008 will see the launch of a new joint-branded John Smedley/Better Thinking Luxury Redefined t-shirt. Made in Derbyshire from organic, fairtrade, extra-long staple Peruvian cotton with an exceptionally low water footprint – the Luxury Redefined concept takes sustainable design and communication to a new level. Supported by a product brochure and web site that...
Designers that want to be artists 4
No 4 in my series “Designers that want to be artists” is probably the most obvious of them all, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job. They are certainly one of the main riders of the media acclaimed design-art or Vulgarism trend. If you have the possibility to get hold of the last issue...
Lisn to Finland
The exhibition Lisn to Finland was a nice experience at Axis gallery during the Tokyo Design Week. The exhibition showed the modern face of traditional Japanese incense in a meeting with the vanguard of Finnish design. According to Tomoki Kusakabe, who once again kindly helped me with images and also information about Japanese incense, it...
More Tokyo design
Here follows another post about exhibitions going on during DesignTide and 100% design Tokyo. Just as in the earlier posts it is the David Report friend Tomoki Kusakabe who is selecting the best shows and delivering all the nice images. First out is anarchy mackintosh by Koichiro Kimura in the Tokyo Hipsters club building (designed...
Another DesignTide post
Today I report about some more activities in Tokyo during the DesignTide event. As in the earlier posts about DesignTide 2007 (here and here) I’m helped by the David Report friends Tomoki Kusakabe reporting directly from Tokyo. The first project is Esquire who presents “Tokujin Yoshioka – Panna chair by Moroso”. The show is a...
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